Amazon - Fire Kids Edition - 7" - Tablet - 16GB 7th Generation, 2017 Release - Blue

I am giving this tablet 4 of 5 stars because it is so Amazon-centric. This tablet has been my go to tablet as gifts to one or more of my 7 grandchildren over the past two Christmases. The tablet allows you to read e-books, play games, education and fun stuff as well. The pricing is great each year with Amazon dropping the price to $49.00 and all. I am a Information Technology OG since the 70's and a straight up MS and Android guy so I was skeptical because this is kind of a proprietary tablet with Amazon tilted features and bloatware plus .apk files available via Amazon only instead of straight android files from GOOGLE Play. I also did not like the fact that you have to side-load 4 files to install GOOGLE Play to get more options for apps. All that aside it was worth the work and this is a durable and dependable tablet. I love the color keyed silicon rubber bumper case as I bought one for a 4 year old who is know to throw things. So far he has not destroyed the tablet. Works well on mine and my various family members home wi-fi networks. One other factor that usually turns people off from this tablet is everyone thinks you have to enter your credit card info for this tablet to function. Not so fast. There are several work arounds. Just GOOGLE "how to set up Amazon Fire without a credit card." I have a Prime account so it does not phase me but it does aggravate some folks. If you order a lot or even occasionally off the Amazon site then you want to set up a credit card or log in using your Prime account. If not you can disable the tablet from accessing the account or credit card if a child is using it. Be advised that you can ask Alexa to do stuff with this tablet. So this is a blessing and a curse. If you set the tablet up for a child make sure you set it up so they don't order anything accidentally. If the tablet is an adult tablet just know you can control your smart home devices that are Alexa compatible with the tablet. "Alexa, turn on the living room lights." I would say before you buy this tablet please speak with your Best Buy Geek Squad and ask questions. If you're uncomfortable with tech or simply do not wish to go through the iterations to set this tablet up then buy a straight android or iPad tablet which will cost more but won't always give you headaches.

Parents! Are you tired of your phone or tablet being commandeered by drooling sticky handed bandits? Are you done with your apps and photos disappearing after a 40 minute Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Appisode binge? Are you fed up with cracked and damaged phones by no fault of your own? Well, let me tell you about the Fire 7 Kids Edition Tablet! At 1/7th the cost of an iPad and Lifeproof case, you can prevent your phone from becoming a $700 sticky cracked brick. The Fire 7 is your affordable answer. At just under $100, for the 16GB model, you can entertain your child for up to 8 hours. However, our professional toddler testing center has seen times closer to 6 hours in real world testing. Additionally, the charging time is a little slow; taking a few hours to charge fully. However, no child needs to spend 6 straight hours looking at a screen. The weight is lite, and with the case, it can withstand most drops from toddler height. We have only had it for a week, but our team of toddler researchers will continue to test to bring you the best insight to this device.

Overall this is a very nice tablet for the price. It comes with a protective shell cover so that if it is dropped by a child, it will likely not break. The shell cover comes in blue, yellow and pink. I bought the pink one for my 3 year old daughter. Thinking that this is a true android tablet, I assumed it would have Youtube and Youtube Kids on it. But, I soon discovered that this tablet does not have anything on it dealing with Google. My daughter loves Youtube kids, so this was not going to work for us. I googled the issue and found out that Amazon and Google are engaged in a fight and as a result no Google products exist on Amazon products. Clearly without Youtube kids, this tablet was going to be useless to us. So, I quickly went back to BB and returned it for the Samsung kids tab E.

I was looking for a tablet that was good for a 2 year old that wasn’t super expensive & this one was perfect! The parental controls on this tablet is AMAZING. I am able to control the age range for content displayed on his profile & can set specific times to turn off, set times for books, videos & more! It comes with many features that puts me in complete control. He is not able to download or have access to any unwanted content so I have no worries as a parent. The case to it is working great, no screen cracks at all & he drops it constantly. The best part is that he enjoys it. He gets on Nickelodeon & ABC Mouse, both APPS I downloaded onto his profile, & he is completely entertained. Because my son is only 2, the screen gets dirty often which makes the screen unable to respond to touch too well but that is expected & fixed the second I wipe off the messy screen. The battery life is okay but well worth the money! Also, you can have your own profile & use it as well to do pretty much any other $500 tablet can do. Great buy!

I purchased this item for my 2 yr old to start learning. The first device I had loaded up for set up quickly and then everything on the device was so slow my daughter had no interest in it. Kids dont have patience. Also several apps you would start and it would shut down. So we exchanged for another of the same thinking we had a bad one. The second one took much longer for set up and updates. Once open it was still pretty slow and apps still shutting off. After much frustration for my child I took it back and simply replaced with a regular Samsung Tablet and downloaded the Freetime App used for the device and it's much better. Based on my experience with the Kindle Fire and the Freetime App I would not recommend the Kindle but just buy a Samsung and download the Freetime app. The only difference is you download everything from the Google play store instead.

This tablet is supposed to be for kids, and includes 10s of 1000's of free content and included memberships for children, good luck finding any of it or your children being even remotely interested in the content that they cannot find instead of the 100s of other products that they must first navigate through before even hoping to reach any included content or apps, oh yes and it all requires additional purchase, I'm software engineer, a resonably intellegent adult and unable to find the same included app twice in a row and most times give up searching for one long before finding anything. The only available view is Amazon Store, there is not default Android home screen ONLY the STORE, to entice your children annoy you with constant begging to buy something else...

I don't usually write reviews but I'm super impressed with this product I just had to share for those in question. I have 5 kids and have been through more tablets than I can count! I bought this for my 3 year old and was worried about the stability of this product as she is very rough (has a tendency to throw things, etc). This tablet is by far the best tablet I've purchased and is worth every penny!! Believe it or not the case provides considerable protection. She's thrown it, stepped on it, etc and it is still going strong. It's very kid friendly and easy to use plus it comes with a years subscription to endless kid appropriate games and videos from the Disney channel. She absolutely loves it!! Nothing negative to report. I'd buy all over again in a heartbeat!! Greatttttt product!! Well worth it!!

The tablet is ok, the case is fine but the kids mode is not so kid friendly, i have to constantly help her figure out how to navigate the menu that is too cluttered and confusing for her, there is no browser to get youtube, they offer some youtube videos but after they end it goes back to the menu and she gets stuck, not great for in the car....you cannot search any videos except what they offer. Its ok, but next time i will just get an android tablet that i can use thier kids mode and the actual youtube app, i regret this purchase and think the samsung tab lite is far superior to the kindle fire for kids. Oh and this tablet is very slow and screen is low def, its probably only worth 50 bucks tops. Do some reserch first its not the best option.